There are times when the little stories of the mishaps of life pass over into stories about the monstrous stupidity of certain fellow members of our species. As examples I offer you two stories of what you might not want to do with your iPhone.
The first came from one of those lists that insurance companies regularly generate as a way of getting a little publicity. You know the sort of thing "10 Strangest Insurance Claims Made This Year"and so on. The papers pick them up because we all like a good giggle.]
In one such list released last week in the UK there was a claim for a replacement phone because the first had "got lost in a cow's vagina". Which is certainly a strange place from which to be trying to make a phone call. But it turned out that that wasn't actually quite what had happened. A farmer had noted his cow in some sort of distress, he thought it might be calving and he used the torch on his phone to have a look: then losing it. One of those little mishaps of life and my, how we all giggled.
There is always someone able to take such things to another level of course. Where sheer ghastly stupidity can make the story so much better:
A burglar has been caught red-handed after accidentally filming a break-in on his mobile phone.
Emmanuel Jerome, 23, from Newsome, thought he had switched on a torch on his iPhone during the night-time burglary.
Instead, he mistakenly recorded the raid on its camera device.
Yes, of course, the police later found the phone and the footage and so one more criminal is behind bars because he was too stupid to know what he was doing with an iPhone. This does rather raise the story from just a mishap, doesn't it? And I must admit that it also raised my giggles to guffaws.
